Here’s the “targeted, timely, and temporary” stimulus proposal President Obama said he wanted. And it was proposed by a Democrat, not a Republican.
[The] START plan is a $170 billion “bare bones” pure stimulus approach that would put $100 billion immediately into the pockets of low- and middle-income Americans, then use the other $70 billion for basic infrastructure projects that create jobs. START requires that all funds not spent by 2010 be returned to the Treasury. START also stops stimulus spending when the nation’s Gross Domestic Product increases in two of three previous quarters, and all START payments are required to be posted on a public website.
Ooh, transparent, too.
Fat chance we would ever see anything like this pass. There’s no pork, no expansion of government power, no liberal agenda attached to it.
I have a serious question, though. Shouldn’t the issues like health care, energy, and education that were crammed into the stimulus bill, be discussed separately? Are these issues not important enough to warrant their own bills, debates, and votes?
Is this what America voted for?
Speaking of what America voted for, remember candidate Obama’s big tax cut for 95% of Americans? Well, here it is.
It would begin showing up in most workers’ paychecks in June as an extra $13 a week in take-home pay, falling to about $8 a week next January.
Was that what America voted for?
Here’s something you can spend it on, via this post on Wizbang.
Tags: economic stimulus
February 12th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
“Is this what America voted for?”
You mean *change* from the status-quo?? Yes, that’s *exactly* what a majority of Americans voted for…just not you Charity, which I completely understand.
“Well, here it is.”
Not exactly…”negotiators agreed to trim the credit to $400 a year instead of $500 — or $800 for married couples, cut from Obama’s original proposal of $1,000.”
Maybe $400-800 is something to sneeze at…who knows…